On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:30:47 +0100, jee@??? said:
> Hot electronic devices tend to fail faster than
> cooler ones.
Not disk drives, according to Google's survey:
"Now for the most surprising result. In Google's population of cheap ATA
disks, high temperature was negatively correlated with failure! In the
authors' words: In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower
temperatures are associated with higher failure rates. Only at very high
temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend."
Source:
http://lwn.net/Articles/237196/
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Keith Edmunds
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